Cognition and motivation : forging an interdisciplinary perspective / / edited by Shulamith Kreitler.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Kreitler, Shulamith.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xx, 506 p.

Table of Contents

The role of epistemic motivations in knowledge formation / Arie W. Kruglanski and Anna Sheveland -- The structure and dynamics of cognitive orientation : a motivational approach to cognition / Shulamith Kreitler -- Personality and cognition / Phillip L. Ackerman -- Cognition in the context of psychopathology : a selective review / Josef Zihl, Nicole Szesny, & Thomas Nickel -- The impact of anxiety on cognitive performance / Michael W. Eysenck -- Biological foundations : the seeking system as an affective source for motivation and cognition / Jeff Stewart and Jaak Panksepp -- Motivation, cognition and emotion : a phylogenetic interdisciplinary approach / Manfred Wimmer -- The social and cultural context of cognition : a knowledge perspective / Evelyn Au, Wendy Wan & Chi-yue Chiu -- Biological models of organisms and their evolutionary change : their importance for epistemology and different cultural traditions / Karl Edlinger -- What do genes have to do with cognition? / Wendy Johnson -- Brain, behavior and cognition / Norbert Jauovec and Ksenija Jauovec -- Physical health and cognition / Shulamith Kreitler, Kineret Weissler, and Frida Barak -- Motivation, goals, thinking, and problem solving / K.J. Gilhooly and E. Fioratou -- Motivation and heuristic thinking / Dan Zakay and Dida Fleisig -- Motivation, decision theory and human decision making / Ola Svenson -- Cognitive science and knowledge management : reflecting the limits of decision making / Rainer P. Born and Eva Gatarik -- Interest and cognition : the case of L- and science / K. Ann Renninger and Kathryn R. Riley -- Metacognition, motivation, and affect in the school context : metacognitive experiences in the regulation of learning / Anastasia Efklides -- Motivation in language / Klaus-Uwe Panther -- Intelligence and cognitive exceptionality / Edward Zigler -- How conscious thought, imagination and fantasy may relate to cognition and motivation / Jerome L. Singer and Dorothy G. Singer -- Creativity and motivation / Mark A. Runco and David McGarva.